Professor Lord Winston, a renowned academic and member of the House of Lords, will deliver the seventh annual Yerushah Lecture in Cambridge on Monday, April 26 about the relationship between Judaism and science.

He will speak about the relationship between scientists and religion and how scientists are so often critical of religion. He will explore whether religious feelings and belief in God are divine or whether these may have evolved as a protective mechanism in humans during the process of natural selection. He will examine the relationship between science and his own religion, Judaism, which fundamentally believes that science is valuable and necessary. He will look at contemporary issues in his own scientific field - human reproduction and genetics - and the various attempts their manipulation such as cloning, transgenesis and now parthenogenesis in mammals as a model.

‘Yerushah’ is Hebrew for ‘heritage’ and the annual lecture, sponsored by Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation, is devoted to all aspects of Jewish heritage. Previous Yerushah lecturers have included: The Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks; Daniel Libeskind, architect of the Jewish Museum, Berlin; and Daniel Snowman, author of ‘The Hitler

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